The Duchess of Cambridge Photoshopped with baby bump?

The Duchess of Cambridge appears with a noticeably rounder stomach on the cover of 'Star' magazine, prompting suggestions that the image has been Photoshopped.

BY Phong Luu |
20 September 2012

Pregnant with twins? The Duchess of Cambridge on the cover of 'Star' (left) has a noticeably rounder stomach than in the original photo Photo: Star magazine/Getty

Star
magazine wishes the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant almost as much as she wishes she never sunbathed topless: the rag has apparently Photoshopped a baby bump onto her frame for the cover of its latest issue.

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The Duchess is pictured in a floral dress by Prabal Gurung, hand resting on tummy, accompanied by shouty captions: "SCANDAL TURNS TO JOY: IT'S TWINS!"; "PREGNANT KATE GETS THRILLING NEWS AMID NUDE-PHOTO UPROAR", "UP TO 125LB AND SHOWING" AND "DRINKING ONLY WATER!" According to
Star'
s sources - the usual anonymous "close friends" - she conceived after a "passionate night" in Wales after the Olympics.

Beady-eyed
Celebuzz
picked up on the fact that, on comparison with the original photo, taken in Singapore on her recent tour of the Far East, Kate's "floral slim-fit frock has been mysteriously blown out" and that she's "missing her right-hand ring."

Just in case we're really rubbish at playing the eight-year-old's game of spot the difference,
MailOnline
carried out further forensics (those guys should work in
CSI
) - laying a ghost of the magazine cover over the original - that revealed, gasp, the photo has indeed been well and truly 'shopped: "The Duchess's entire torso looks to have been widened, and the angle of her left arm and the glass she holds seem to have been altered, with Mary Tan's [the wife of Tony Tan, Singapore's president, who Kate was sharing a toast with] glass removed from the frame entirely." Well,
Star
did run a cover recently claiming that: "It's official! Kate's pregnant", so maybe it felt pressure to deliver the "evidence", even if it is faked.

In the grand scheme of things, it's not the dodgiest Frankensteined picture of Kate:
Grazia
botched up a photo of her in her wedding dress by whittling her waist down to a pencil and giving her weird-angled arms, while
Marie Claire
South Africa plonked her head and hands onto the body of a random model in a lurid dress by a designer Kate's never been snapped in.